January 10th, 2012 
dave “Just as dogs love to chew bones, the mind loves to get its teeth into problems. That’s why it solves crossword puzzles and builds atom bombs.” – Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now
Your mind is a potentially useful machine, but when employed for the wrong purposes, it just makes a bunch of irritating and potentially destructive noise.
If the writing process is devoid of joy, or if it seems too complicated, this is a strong indication that you are allowing your mind to have too much control.
Your heart, and only your heart, can communicate with anyone. Your heart has a message to carry to the world. The role of the mind is to package and translate that message into words.
Your heart’s language is too simple to be understood by the mind. The mind’s language is too complicated to be heard by the heart. The two need to work in tandem.
If your heart is filled with poison, your mind will construct words and phrases that hurt people deeply.
If your heart has nothing to say, your mind will spin empty words all day long.
Therefore, an important skill for a writer is learning to recognize when the heart needs attention.
The mind will voluntarily bow out when it recognizes that it has nothing useful to contribute. Unfortunately, the mind often takes years or decades to recognize this.
Feeding your heart might look like painting, cleaning the house, doing mindless and repetitive tasks, sleeping, having a conversation with someone you love, taking a walk outside, or any number of other things.
Your heart will let you know when it’s ready to write.
When you tend to your heart regularly, you will have no issue with writer’s block.
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